Hi all,
I'm a GPL offline racer, but after winning races against the AI @
highest difficulty levels and getting a negative GPL rank I finally
dared to try my hand at online VROC racin'.
Nice stuff for sure, won 6 F1 races my first week (mostly by avoiding
the T1 crashes), and lost a lot more of course.
...but it's Monza, Spa, Glen & Silverstone a lot of the time, and I'd
like to drive some other tracks as well sometimes. A lot of those races
seem to be passworded though.
So, um, could I humbly ask some nice admins to email me some passwords
for servers up weekly/daily on Vroc? Or is there a mailing list for
this stuff?
I can't promise I won't accidentally punt off some poor sod sometimes,
unfortunately ;)
But at least I try to avoid it (note though: the Eagle has poor brakes
and mine in particular - and some people try to stay right behind when I
*have* to get on the binders, with predictable consequences :)
...But i got a neg GPLrank these days, I hope that almost qualifies to
compete from the back with you race gods ;)
Oh, and um, my main car is the Eagle and GPL defaults to that, but how
can I start an online race in, say, the Coop sometimes? Changing the
default every time seems a bit of a bother.
Regards, Rudy (aka "Rudy Eagle" on Vroc)
(GPLRank -0.89)
"And to think, ten years ago, we thought we were racing fast cars" (Juan
Manuel Fangio, at the German GP 1967)
Passworded races are usually private or league races, so most you will never be able to join inless
you know admin or join that league. VROC defaults to whatever car you last used in GPL without
going through VROC. SO if you want to default to the Coop for example, go into GPL off-line and
make that your default car, next time you click join in VROC, that will be the default car.
--
Biz
"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash
"Ruud Dingemans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bev11c$aga$[email hidden]...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a GPL offline racer, but after winning races against the AI @
> highest difficulty levels and getting a negative GPL rank I finally
> dared to try my hand at online VROC racin'.
>
>
> Nice stuff for sure, won 6 F1 races my first week (mostly by avoiding
> the T1 crashes), and lost a lot more of course.
>
> ...but it's Monza, Spa, Glen & Silverstone a lot of the time, and I'd
> like to drive some other tracks as well sometimes. A lot of those races
> seem to be passworded though.
>
>
> So, um, could I humbly ask some nice admins to email me some passwords
> for servers up weekly/daily on Vroc? Or is there a mailing list for
> this stuff?
>
> I can't promise I won't accidentally punt off some poor sod sometimes,
> unfortunately ;)
> But at least I try to avoid it (note though: the Eagle has poor brakes
> and mine in particular - and some people try to stay right behind when I
> *have* to get on the binders, with predictable consequences :)
>
>
>
> ...But i got a neg GPLrank these days, I hope that almost qualifies to
> compete from the back with you race gods ;)
>
>
> Oh, and um, my main car is the Eagle and GPL defaults to that, but how
> can I start an online race in, say, the Coop sometimes? Changing the
> default every time seems a bit of a bother.
>
> Regards, Rudy (aka "Rudy Eagle" on Vroc)
> (GPLRank -0.89)
>
>
> "And to think, ten years ago, we thought we were racing fast cars" (Juan
> Manuel Fangio, at the German GP 1967)
>
"Ruud Dingemans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:bev11c$aga$[email hidden]...
> So, um, could I humbly ask some nice admins to email me some passwords
> for servers up weekly/daily on Vroc? Or is there a mailing list for
> this stuff?
If you haven't already loaded up winvroc, drop by http://www.vroc.net/ and
read though the whole site.
Once you've got past the richedit error & updated the vroc server ip, you
should be able to get a racelist.
Each server has a coloured box to the left:
Green is an open (unpassworded race) that hasn't started yet. You can join
any of them, but try to get the best latency you can find.
Orange usually just means the server is running a firewall & you can't ping
it, but it may also mean the latency is too high if you have a poor
connection.
Blue are passworded races, you will need to join the appropriate league to
race on these, or at least know the host. Passwords, as a rule, are there to
stop strangers from joining, and are never usually just given out in chat,
that's what the green races are for ;-)
Red usually means the race is in progress, so you can no longer join, but it
may also be because you don't have that track installed.
I recommend that you just pick a server with a few drivers already in, and
just watch the first time. Once you feel confident enough, go out on track
but watch your mirrors and keep out of everyone's way. After a few races
you'll get the hang of racing real people (it's a hell of alot more
intimidating than racing the AI).
You WILL make mistakes, and you WILL take someone out. Everyone does ;-)
How you deal with that just depends on how thick skinned you are, but the
vast majority of drivers are extremely polite, and as long as you are too,
you'll fit in just fine ;-)
Malc.
if my other posts show up excuse me... However Im pretty sure they went to
a black hole or null file.
along with malc's info, there is a neat thing about the WinVroc program...
you can pick your car, just as you join the server... where it is
acceptable, you can pick the class of car too. the little ap is d*m well
worth the trouble to get it running...
Malc wrote:
>>So, um, could I humbly ask some nice admins to email me some passwords
>>for servers up weekly/daily on Vroc?
> Once you've got past the richedit error & updated the vroc server ip, you
> should be able to get a racelist.
Urrrrmm.... Thankx Malc, but I think you misread some of my message. I said
"I'm a GPL offline racer, but (..) I finally dared to try my hand at
online VROC racin'.
> Nice stuff for sure, won 6 F1 races my first week (mostly by avoiding the T1 crashes),
>and lost a lot more of course."
So, um, I've already did some VROC races this week and got to know
WinVroc (still waiting for MacVROC and MacGPL though ;).
> You WILL make mistakes, and you WILL take someone out. Everyone does ;-)
Ah (relieved) - thank goodness, I almost thought I was a subconscious
wrecker or something ;)
> How you deal with that just depends on how thick skinned you are,
Me? After being punted by stupid AI (who seem to think you're not there
when you actually are, sometimes) I'm quite used to it. I go !@#$!#%$!!!
for a coupla seconds, then move on ;)
> vast majority of drivers are extremely polite, and as long as you are too,
> you'll fit in just fine ;-)
Um, does making my car's ass reaaaally wide when I'm in front count? ;)
(In reality, if someone's clearly faster I'm quite easy about letting
him/her pass though, since a collision is the likely result if I don't.
I've made a few mistakes because the brake distances on my Eagle are
abysmally long though ;)
Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -0.89)
Ruud Dingemans <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<bevb89$4el$[email hidden]>...
You REALLY need to join a league -- as others have said,
password-protected races are either PRIVATE or LEAGUE races, and you
won't get into either unless you know someone (for the private races)
or if you belong to the league in question.
One league I'd highly recommend is the VOR-GPL league -- this is the
first GPL league that I've been involved in, and they are a GREAT,
SUPER bunch of guys. Check them out:
http://www.gplvor.speedgeezers.com/Virtual_Online_Racers/GPL/main.htm
Our current season is coming to and end this week, but we will be
running some LONG "fun" races, and a new season will begin soon, so
now's a good time to check them out.
Tell 'em jbodin sent you -- if you're lucky, they might overlook that
and let you join anyway . . .
;-)
Enjoy!
-- JCB
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> Malc wrote: > >>So, um, could I humbly ask some nice admins to email me some passwords > >>for servers up weekly/daily on Vroc? > > > Once you've got past the richedit error & updated the vroc server ip, you > > should be able to get a racelist. > > > Urrrrmm.... Thankx Malc, but I think you misread some of my message. I said > > "I'm a GPL offline racer, but (..) I finally dared to try my hand at > online VROC racin'. > > > Nice stuff for sure, won 6 F1 races my first week (mostly by avoiding the T1 crashes), > >and lost a lot more of course." > > So, um, I've already did some VROC races this week and got to know > WinVroc (still waiting for MacVROC and MacGPL though ;). > > > > You WILL make mistakes, and you WILL take someone out. Everyone does ;-) > > > Ah (relieved) - thank goodness, I almost thought I was a subconscious > wrecker or something ;) > > > How you deal with that just depends on how thick skinned you are, > > > Me? After being punted by stupid AI (who seem to think you're not there > when you actually are, sometimes) I'm quite used to it. I go !@#$!#%$!!! > for a coupla seconds, then move on ;) > > > vast majority of drivers are extremely polite, and as long as you are too, > > you'll fit in just fine ;-) > > Um, does making my car's ass reaaaally wide when I'm in front count? ;) > > (In reality, if someone's clearly faster I'm quite easy about letting > him/her pass though, since a collision is the likely result if I don't. > I've made a few mistakes because the brake distances on my Eagle are > abysmally long though ;) > > Regards, Rudy > (GPLRank -0.89)Ruud Dingemans wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a GPL offline racer, but after winning races against the AI @
> highest difficulty levels and getting a negative GPL rank I finally
> dared to try my hand at online VROC racin'.
Hi,
Find yourself a beginer friendly league (most are to some degree) and
jump in.
http://forum.racesimcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=80
-Greg
Ruud Dingemans wrote:
>
> Oh, and um, my main car is the Eagle and GPL defaults to that, but how
> can I start an online race in, say, the Coop sometimes? Changing the
> default every time seems a bit of a bother.
When you click a race to join it, the next screen you get before it
starts GPL lists the player.ini name you're going to race under. Just
below that is a drop down menu which lists all the cars and you can
simply pick a different one from that list before hitting 'ok'.
Kevin Clark wrote:
>> can I start an online race in, say, the Coop sometimes? Changing the
> below that is a drop down menu which lists all the cars and you can
> simply pick a different one from that list before hitting 'ok'.
Thanks Kevin, I'll look into that.
BTW, Just a Day RULEZ - my brother's favorite GPL movie too and he isn't
even really into GPL ;)
Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -0.89)
Ruud Dingemans wrote:
Thanks :-)
New movie coming VERY soon. Keep your eyes peeled.
Kev
